On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 03:12:08, Van Voordturen wrote: >> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:46:52 +0200 >> From: "Or Botton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Arachne on TV - How it looked like >> Hi. >> I've managed to get a VGA-to-TV convertor (etleast!), and I have >> connected my P350 to the TV to see how Arachne will look like. >> (I know that the P350 is not a slow SurvPC machine, but I got >> PC-DOS 2000 fully configured over there and it can run everything. >> No windows-only device anywhere.). As I have expected, the picture was >> abit blurry. The fonts were hard to see.. I tried to use the biggest >> system font and HTML font scaling availble, but things still looked >> abit weird. The resolution of the TV is indeed very lousy when you >> get to see how direct computer graphics look on it. Infact, even in >> the lowest resolution Arachne still looked abit hard to understand. >> I remember that DR-WebSpyder had a direct "for TV" visual setting >> option. I want to try it. If it will look more clearer, maybe Michael >> can get some ideas about how to add a "TV visual setup" for Arachne. :) > I've been experimenting with my TV too, using some familiar looking output > channel on a hercules/cga card (one with a switch on it for mda/cga). It's > results always looked scrambled, and (of course) promised cga resolution if > it would ever get stable. Yet my Commodore 64 taught me what tv can do... > (and 64 kB too, for that matter). > What hardware is a vga to tv converter? > Bart? I don't know Arachne how it looks like or if it works when you run it with a real CGA-card with composite TV-out. But I tested Arachne with MESS (emu 8088 IBM-pc with 640k and CGA-hardware) on PCCGA-settings with -monitor set to arcade on my arcademachine and with a vga2tv driver on my PAL-TV (SCART) and it worked nice (like CGA worked with Arachne 640x400 B/W :) ).(sorry I can not attach a screeshot). But look- CGA has real RGB-out (on TTL-level) with an old RGB-monitor. However, you are right CGA is not the way for good TV-browsing with Arachne. regards, Joerg PS. I could not find a download for DR-WEBSPYDER, can somebody help -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client -- Arachne V1.60;b1, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
